Free command line software for linux

Command Line WRAPper is a tool that provides an easy way to build and run commands from input lines, avoiding the use of shell script. It is similar to xargs.

clwrap can make great things with the locate command, and is low resource intensive. It can also do some not-quite-fun works like multiple configure/make/make install after a fresh system installation. In practice, you have to generate a list of files/directories you want to manage, clwrap takes it in standard input and apply the command you want to apply for each files (lines) in input.

But you can do much more, in fact, its up to you to find how to use it ;).

examples:

- copying several files into one specific directory:

locate myfiles | clwrap -e cp {} mydir/

- renaming several files:

ls -1 ultra*
| clwrap -e "echo -n mv -v {}" -e "echo {} | sed s/ultra/ /"
| clwrap -e {}

- running a specific line in the shell history:

history | grep "482" | head -n 1 | sed s/ *[0-9]* *// | clwrap -v -e {}


- try all tv norms and frequency tables possible combinations with scantv:

cat norm
| clwrap -e "cat freq | clwrap -e echo scantv -n {} -f {}"
| clwrap -e {} > file 2>&1

- reformat source code, after a backup of course:

ls -1 | clwrap -e "cp {} {}.orig && flip -u {} && cat {}
| sed s/^[ t]*$//;/^$/d
| indent -kr -bad -bap -bbb -sob -i8 -l100 {} -o {}.tmp
&& mv {} tmp && mv {}.tmp {}"

snd123 is a simple command line audio player that supports MP2, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC, Apple Lossless, AC3, CDDA, WMA 1 and 2, MOD, XM, IT, S3M, 669, MTM, and STM.

Supported Formats:

MP2, MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, FLAC, Apple Lossless, AC3, CDDA, WMA 1 and 2.
MOD formats: MOD, XM, IT, S3M, 669, MTM, STM.

fatresize is a command line tool for non-destructive resizing of FAT16/FAT32 file systems. It is based on the GNU Parted library.
The main target of the project is to be used with the EVMS FAT plugin.
Enhancements:
- This version works properly with EVMS-partitions, and compiles with LFS support.
- The resize code was synchronized with the new version of the command-line parted utility.

xmlclitools provides four command-line tools for searching, modifying, and formating XML data.

The tools are designed to work in conjunction with standard *nix utilities such as grep, sort, and shell scripts.

Includes:

xmlgrep
Select subsets of xmlfiles for output.
xmlfmt
Print properties of xmlfiles formatted on a line by line basis.
xmlmod
Modify xmlfiles. Change values. Add or delete nodes.

XArchive is a generic front end for archives that uses external wrappers around the command line tools. XArchive checks its wrapper directory when it starts, consulting each wrapper found to see what file types are supported.
Thus, a new archive format can easily be supported by just writing a wrapper for it and dropping it in the wrappers directory.
Currently there are bash shell wrappers for: rar, tar, zip, and ace
(ace supported using unace, so only reading and extracting available).
These can easily be copied and modified to have xarchive support other command line tools and file types without having to touch xarchive at all.
Enhancements:
- This version supports adding files to an archive using Drag n Drog, and has a few GUI clean ups.

Command Line Content Management System is my own command line content management system. Its not a dynamic cms, but a script that takes a source tree and creates a web site out of it.
The idea came to me when i was using m4 for my website to generate the HTML, but i did not like the idea that i was still typing HTML in my pages, even if it was simplified by using macros. I was updating a wiki page somewhere when it hit me: i wanted a command line system that was able to take wiki style input for page content. The result is clcms.
Its in beta state at the moment, mostly to try out some different approaches to various
challenges. But i thought id share it now, so if youre interested and might have some ideas on where to go from here, drop me a line (or a patch). At least it can build this site and the tutorial site, but anything more fancy will probably not work.
Its also a way for me to learn Python, so i might in my ignorance produce some weird constructs here and there. Please let me know, but be gentle.
Main features:
- Updates should be possible with a terminal and an editor
- Content is stored in a directory tree
- Adding pages (or items?) should be as easy as creating a new file and typing some lines in it.
- For default pages/items no config necessary
- No HTML, XML or anything alike for normal usage
- All pages have their binary content (images, download files) in the directory of the page itself
- All output is static, no generating on the fly
Usage:
After untarring the tarball, add < dir>/bin to your path or copy bin/clcms.py to a directory in your path.
You can now go to < dir>/examples/documentation and build the tutorial by running
clcms.py
Now wasnt that easy?
Point your browser to file://< dir>/examples/documentation/out/index.html and see the result of all your hard work.
If it did not work, its not your fault. Just remember that version number.
Enhancements:
- .page files can now contain content attributes.
- Filename extensions are removed and replaced by attribute lines in .page files.
- The page.meta file should now be called page.attr.
- The nomenu option had disappeared in a previous release, and has been put back.

xmms-curses is a simple application for controlling XMMS from the command line. It is designed to make common, simple tasks fast and easy to do.

xmms-curses is operated using arrow keys and standard XMMS keys, to make it easy and intuitive to learn.

m3u123 is a very simple command line music player that uses XMMS I/O plugins to play music, independently of XMMS. m3u123 project does not require an X server.